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Singapore-based air quality sensor company uHoo announced a new funding round on Tuesday that it says was “oversubscribed by 50 percent,” although it did not disclose the amount.Also read:  The Untold Story of Miss Fernadez, the School Teacher Who Killed 200 Japanese ...

Property giant Megaworld has formally announced its entry into technology and digital venture capitalism with the launch of a new unit called Agile Digital Ventures. The wholly owned subsidiary will support tech startups engaged in the country’s food, retail, and hospitality industries, especially ...

You don’t have to check your social media feed to understand how devastating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been worldwide. Besides the thousands directly infected by the virus, you probably also know people who have lost their jobs or are ...

Brian Cu is leaving his role as president of Grab Philippines effective August 14, 2020. A statement released by Grab on Wednesday, July 15, said Cu “has decided to move on to focus other business interests as an entrepreneur in the startup ...

Manila’s startup ecosystem got a special citation in this year’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) by Startup Genome. The city ranked 36th globally in GSER's inaugural ranking of the world’s top 100 emerging startup ecosystems.“Manila brims with entrepreneurial potential,” writer Sofia Kousa ...

A second wave of job cuts at Uber has seen the ride–hailing service lose another 3,000 of its staff because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement comes less than two weeks after it laid off some 3,700 of its ...

Philippine-based media and tech firm Kumu Holdings Pte. Ltd. has raised approximately $5 million (around P255 million) during its Series A funding round, the company announced Tuesday, April 14. Kumu is primarily a live streaming platform that allows users to broadcast to their ...

Malaysia-based startup iPrice Group on Monday announced that it has raised $10 million in a Series B funding round led by ACA Investments Pte Ltd, along with Daiwa PI Partners, and returning investors LINE Ventures, and Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund. The ecommerce aggregation ...

Local unicorn startup Revolution Precrafted has responded to news reports questioning the status of its ongoing projects. In a statement sent to Esquire Philippines on Saturday, February 29, the company said that while it had initially offered prefabricated homes, pavilions, and related structures designed ...

The ecosystem of startups in the Philippines has been slowly and steadily growing in the last few years, nurturing a number of standout startups, like Coins.ph and Investagrams, to name a few. In 2020, the ecosystem is now home to more than: ...

When Robbie Antonio founded Revolution Precrafted in 2015, it was an ambitious startup that sought to connect home buyers with some of the world’s most recognizable names in architecture and design to create made-to-order homes for anyone anywhere in the world. Prefabricated ...

There is a saying that success happens when preparation meets opportunity.Sweethearts Kim Sy and Abi Fernandez had been planning to put up their own business long before they decided to come home from Singapore, where they spent five years as OFWs.Sy, who ...

The Final Pitch is going international with its first-ever overseas edition: The Final Pitch ASEAN. John Aguilar, founder and host of the reality competition TV show featuring startup companies, made the big reveal at the media launch of the Philippine Fintech Festival ...

While most of us are taking a hiatus from work at this time of year, Winston Damarillo is probably doing quite the opposite. The graduate of De La Salle University, CEO of Talino Venture Labs, and executive chairman of Amihan Global Strategies ...

If you could live anywhere in the world (money not being an issue) where would you go? Many of us would probably say anywhere but the Philippines. Funnily enough, not a few foreigners feel the complete opposite. Case in point: Belgians Thomas ...

When the K to 12 program was implemented in the Philippine education system in 2013, Henry Motte Muñoz set a project in motion—a startup that initially sought to fill a gap in the school-hunting process. His brainchild, Edukasyon.ph, planted its roots as ...